I was thinking that there's not a whole lot of savings in buying a PSU or CPU cooler on kijiji unless I'm looking at high end pieces and so I could grab those from Canada Computers too. Then it's just an SSD and at least 500GB HDD to get, either from kijiji or newegg.

I put that together out of what was available but I dunno how great it'll be.

Not all RAM is created equally. The lower the timings on the RAM the better and if you mix different speeds it will all slow down to whatever is the slowest. The link you posted the person hasn't linked to anything actually useful for what model RAM it is.

Thomas Malthus wrote:Okay fellas, I'm looking to build a computer myself and I know you lot are fucking nerds that can help me (we're all nerds, just different flavours). This will be my first build and I do want to build it myself.

I'd like to see an improvement in performance from my macbook that I've upgraded to 16GB of Crucial DDR3 RAM to go with an i5-3210M CPU. It'll mainly be for running things like R, Stata, Matlab and general computer use (on two non-4k monitors). I don't really game but would be open to grabbing a cheap GPU so that I can use my brother's Steam account to try out some games every so often. I'm trying to keep the build as cheap as possible, making liberal use of kijiji.

I've been trying to do some reading (looking at relevant subreddits, tom's hardware, etc.) but any help/tips/advice you fellas could give would be great.

I already had the keyboard and the monitor but I've spent about $620 on everything else. Just waiting for my hard drive and cpu cooler to come in on Thursday and the nam going to put it together.

That motherboard has an M.2 slot so that's another option for you as far as the SSD is concerned (you don't necessarily need to get the SATA version if the M.2 version is on sale instead).

I realize now that I saw a couple M.2 SSDs on kijiji but didn't really understand what was going on since I'd not heard of them before. Is there any difference in performance between an M.2 and SATA SSD?

"If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything." - Ronald Coase"[...]all models are wrong, some are useful." - George E. P. Box

I already had the keyboard and the monitor but I've spent about $620 on everything else. Just waiting for my hard drive and cpu cooler to come in on Thursday and the nam going to put it together.

That motherboard has an M.2 slot so that's another option for you as far as the SSD is concerned (you don't necessarily need to get the SATA version if the M.2 version is on sale instead).

I realize now that I saw a couple M.2 SSDs on kijiji but didn't really understand what was going on since I'd not heard of them before. Is there any difference in performance between an M.2 and SATA SSD?

NewEgg is pretty trustworthy and free shipping is a bonus (they usually charge for shipping). $209.99 isn't the absolute lowest price I've seen for it but it's the lowest price I've seen for that particular drive in a while (as in, I don't think I've seen it on sale for a lower price this year).

NewEgg is pretty trustworthy and free shipping is a bonus (they usually charge for shipping). $209.99 isn't the absolute lowest price I've seen for it but it's the lowest price I've seen for that particular drive in a while (as in, I don't think I've seen it on sale for a lower price this year).

If you don't think you'll need that much storage capacity, the 250 GB version is at a rather reasonable price as well: $115.99 with free shipping.

I bought a cheap ADATA 120GB Ultimate SU700. The pricing on them made me go back and forth on what size to get. For like $40 more I could have gotten a 250GB drive, then for another $80 on top of that I could have gotten up to 500GB or so (depending on the manufacturers of course). In the end, I decided that since all I'm really going to be putting on it are my OS and maybe some games (I'm not sure whether it would be worth putting on my programs like MatLab, Stata, and R.—but they only take up a fairly small amount of space anyways) it was better to go small and cheap for now. I have a 1TB HDD and can always upgrade the SSD later.

Turned out that the PSU wasn't included with the case, motherboard, CPU, and RAM so I had to buy one. Not the end of the world since I still think that package of stuff was a good deal without the PSU. I ended up getting a Corsair CX650M that will be $69.99+tax after a mail-in rebate from Canada Computers, but the had just put the last one they had into someone's build they were doing and so had to order one in. I should have it this week and then can finally start putting this rig together.

"If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything." - Ronald Coase"[...]all models are wrong, some are useful." - George E. P. Box

Yeah, pcpartpicker has my wattage around 300 and newegg recommended a PSU capable of 505W. I thought about going for the CX550M that was in stock but felt a bit more comfortable with 650W.

MIR are a pain in the ass but like you said, better than nothing. Newegg had a few refurbished PSUs that looked decent, great value but they had no warranty or a one year warranty on them. I figured that this was a pretty good deal and I get the full warranty on it too. Plus, those PSUs didn't have free shipping and paying for shipping sucks.

"If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything." - Ronald Coase"[...]all models are wrong, some are useful." - George E. P. Box

Thomas Malthus wrote:Yeah, pcpartpicker has my wattage around 300 and newegg recommended a PSU capable of 505W. I thought about going for the CX550M that was in stock but felt a bit more comfortable with 650W.

MIR are a pain in the ass but like you said, better than nothing. Newegg had a few refurbished PSUs that looked decent, great value but they had no warranty or a one year warranty on them. I figured that this was a pretty good deal and I get the full warranty on it too. Plus, those PSUs didn't have free shipping and paying for shipping sucks.

Yeah, definitely don't skimp on the PSU. The rest of your system is depending on it, including the most expensive parts.

When i went out for a smoke i think they blew an amp and had to use some of anciients equipment. But i was out side and missed it. Basing that on them thanking anciients for the borrow.

Vocally dead quiet sounded exactly as recorded...as did anciients. Which is what really surprises me..more so for dead quiet. Cause it doesnt sound like good technique. Maybe as the tour continues it will degrade. Let me know